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The Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life.

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Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.
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Conflict Harmony Life Stop
The space under the sky is occupied by all things in their unity.
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Occupy Sky Space Unity
Silence, and non action are the root of all things.
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Action Root Silence
When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.
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Affirmation Attachment Negative Oneself Religious
If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.
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Heart Insight Intellectual Knowledge Pierce
Only the intelligent knows how to identify all things as one. When one is at ease with himself, one is near Tao. This is to let Nature take its own course.
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Flow Himself Identify Intelligence Nature Path Religion Whole
One whose inner being is fixed upon such greatness emits a Heavenly glow. Even though he has this Heavenly glow, others will see him as just a man. Someone who has reached this point will begin to be consistent.
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Beginning Consistent Glow Greatness Heaven Point
A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
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Deep Ocean One Liner
Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty and waits on all things.
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Empty Listening Mindset Recognition Spirit Wait
For we can only know that we know nothing, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
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Dangerous Knowledge Known
My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
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Finding Happiness Opinion Stop Yourself
The ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.
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Body Death Life Share Store
Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
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Beginning Born Death End
Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!
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Awake Easy Fools Imagination Reality Understand
Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.
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Deep Existence Forget Literature Meaning Poet Word Yourself
Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone.
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Alone Goodness Result

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